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1. Add MS 14252

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Add MS 14252
Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 62122

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Add MS 62122
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius A XII

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Cotton MS Claudius A XII
Title:
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Historia Normannorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; Bury St Edmunds hosteller’s register; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans), beginning: 'Totius namque molis orbe descripto'. ff. 78v-83r: Marbod of Rennes (b. 1035, d. 1123), De Lapidibus (About Stones), beginning: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni’. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Claudius C IX

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Cotton MS Claudius C IX
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171; William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum; Notarial copy of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558–1603), issued at Hereford Cathedral; Charters of Kings Edward I (r. 1272–1307) and Henry III (r. 1216–72) of England for the Abingdon Abbey; Award of Norham, addressed to the abbot and convent of Battle; Liber terrarum of Abingdon Abbey and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains the Chronicle of the theologian Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The second p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Claudius E III

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Cotton MS Claudius E III
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle; Henry Knighton, Chronicon; William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum; Tito Livio Frulovisi, Vita Henrici Quinti; Robert Grosseteste, Epistola
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made out of four parts. The first part contains the Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles) and the Ymagines Historiarum (Images of Histories) by Ralph of Diceto (b. c. 1130, d. 1202), as well as the Winchester Chronicle. The second part was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1197-1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
Title:
Treatise on the singing of the Psalms (fragment); Chronicle from the conception of Christ until 1062; Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey to 1263 (imperfect); Cartulary of Tewkesbury Abbey; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Collatio Compoti Romani et Arabici; Herman of Reichenau, Computus Abbreviates; computistical argumenta
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and 2nd half of the 13th centuries. Two parts were certainly written at and for the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury, as these contain the annals a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Faustina A V

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Cotton MS Faustina A V
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints; Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae; Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Pseudo-Jerome, De Quindecim Signis ante Diem Iudicii; Liber de Antichristo; sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains five parts that were written in England during the 12th and 14th centuries (ff. 3-12; 13-24; 25-98; 99-102; 103-106). The larger part of the manuscript (ff. 25r-97r), copied in the first quarter of the 12th century, contains the De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Nero C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII
Title:
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali; Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis; A Passionale (imperfect); An Easter-table including Annals of Thorney Abbey; Rentals of the Benedictine abbey of Peterborough; an annalistic chronicle; Rental of Nailsbourne and Holway and other memoranda
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from Christ Church, Canterbury, imperfect. ff. 80r-84v: An Easter-table including the annals of Thorney Abbey. ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Tiberius B III

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Cotton MS Tiberius B III
Title:
Calendar of Saints; computistical tables; lunar calendar with prognostics; solar and lunar tables; instructions for determining the dates of liturgical feasts from the Temporal cycle; Benedictional; sequence of prayers on the Litany; a memoria for St Ursinus of Bourges; Odo of Cluny, Collationes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains four sections that were separately produced at different periods of time. The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar tables, was produced at Canterbury in the 1st quarter of the 13th century, but cer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

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